As the 20th anniversary of the 1872 Act approached, and 8 years after the sitting of the ‘Napier Commission’ this was the state of, well, State Education on the island. It will come as no surprise to readers who have read my earlier pieces charting the increasing dominance of Tarbert to see the number of teachers now residing in North Harris. The Bays area appears to have spawned several schools and, notably, a pair of ‘Pupil Teachers’ aged 14 and 16 who I am guessing were a form of Teaching Assistant recruited from within the ranks of the older students in a school? The need for such support can more easily be understood from the simple fact that in this year there were just a few less than 1200 ‘Scholars’ recorded in the Census.